Platform
The party's 2010 platform outlines the following positions and policies:
- Political campaign contribution limits for state and local elections
- Creation of a state "Bank of Oregon" modeled on the state Bank of North Dakota
- Making the current bicameral Oregon State Legislature a unicameral legislature like the Nebraska Legislature by abolishing the Oregon State Senate and folding its duties into the Oregon House of Representatives
- Support legal same-sex marriage in the state
- Creation of a single-payer health care system either at the state level or national level
- End of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars
- A balanced federal budget, except in times of national emergency
- Usage of 100% renewable energy without any fossil fuels, offshore oil drilling, or nuclear power
- Cut the military budget of the United States
- End of the federal War on drugs
Read more about this topic: Oregon Progressive Party
Famous quotes containing the word platform:
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—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
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—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)